cybereye
30-01-2013, 07:37 AM
Hello everyone!
Now you may or may not have heard but one of Brisbane's water treatment plants was taken off line due to the silt in the river from the flooding. The Premier & Lord Mayor have asked Brisbane residents to conserve water - back to the old 4 minute shower rule - till the plant is back on line.
Now besides the fact that I didn't realize that our drinking water came from the Brisbane River down stream of the Wivenhoe Dam, this caused an unusual reaction at the Sunnybank shopping centre near where I live.
Yesterday afternoon, my wife was up there getting groceries when she rang and asked what I knew about the water being turned off? I said I'd heard that we'd been asked to conserve water but nothing else. Apparently people were panic buying water and when my wife asked why people were buying 30 odd 2l bottles of water at a time she was told that the water was not safe to drink and was going to be shut off!
I told her what I knew that the water was supposed to be safe to drink but may taste funny. It was decided she buy a couple of 1l bottles to get her through the next 48 hours for drinking purposes. We didn't really need any more - certainly not 30 bottles - as the boys drink milk and me, well I'll just stick to wine & scotch!
It's amazing just how a simple request by the government can be blown out of proportion. As Lance Corporal Jack Jones from Dad's Army would say, "Don't Panic!".
Cheers,
Mario
Now you may or may not have heard but one of Brisbane's water treatment plants was taken off line due to the silt in the river from the flooding. The Premier & Lord Mayor have asked Brisbane residents to conserve water - back to the old 4 minute shower rule - till the plant is back on line.
Now besides the fact that I didn't realize that our drinking water came from the Brisbane River down stream of the Wivenhoe Dam, this caused an unusual reaction at the Sunnybank shopping centre near where I live.
Yesterday afternoon, my wife was up there getting groceries when she rang and asked what I knew about the water being turned off? I said I'd heard that we'd been asked to conserve water but nothing else. Apparently people were panic buying water and when my wife asked why people were buying 30 odd 2l bottles of water at a time she was told that the water was not safe to drink and was going to be shut off!
I told her what I knew that the water was supposed to be safe to drink but may taste funny. It was decided she buy a couple of 1l bottles to get her through the next 48 hours for drinking purposes. We didn't really need any more - certainly not 30 bottles - as the boys drink milk and me, well I'll just stick to wine & scotch!
It's amazing just how a simple request by the government can be blown out of proportion. As Lance Corporal Jack Jones from Dad's Army would say, "Don't Panic!".
Cheers,
Mario